Why material visual practices?

Lehmuskallio, Asko; Cruz, Edgar Gómez

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“…We call these images forecasted photos because they are photos uploaded specifically to influence one's future. This photo work adds a future tense to related work on snapshot photography, which has tended to focus either on that what has been, or in the present tense, on that what is (see, e.g., Rose, 2010;andcontributions in Larsen &Sandbye, 2013, andGómez Cruz &Lehmuskallio, 2016). The importance of using cameras or photos to evoke desired futures is apparent in other cultural fields as well, as we will discuss at the end of the paper.…”

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Photo use while dating: From forecasted photos in Tinder to creating copresence using other media

2019

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While studying Finnish users of the online dating app Tinder searching for longterm partnerships, we paid attention to the importance of photos in their social interactions. Based on our study, we argue that photos play an important role in online dating. Initially, photos are chosen and uploaded to influence future interactions, particularly regarding who will contact them via their profile. We term this particular future tense of photography forecasted photos. Second, photos enabled the creation of copresence between dates, especially via instant messaging services instantly after capture. Third, the classic notions of photos depicting the past became important when wanting to be reminded of previous meetings. Taken together, we argue that photos enhance intimacy building while dating on social media. This role should be accounted for by paying attention not only to photography's relation to the past or the present, but also to a future tense of photography.

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Photo use while dating: From forecasted photos in Tinder to creating copresence using other media

2019

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“…We decided to interview and observe users of the online dating app Tinder who were searching for long-term partnerships, paying specific attention to the importance of photos in their social interactions while dating. In following a practice turn in visual studies (Lehmuskallio & Gómez Cruz, 2016), we paid specific attention to the practices in which photo use is embedded, in this case, within the practices related to finding a long-term partner. One question specifically guided our research: How are photos used during the process of searching for long-term partners?…”

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From the Editor in Chief THE APPARATGEIST OF THE MOON LANDING Fifty years ago, a decade that was revolutionary in human development in many ways was drawing to a close. This period in the world's history was as famous for love as for war, but also for big and small technological innovations. Consumers became acquainted with acronyms such as ATM, CD, LASER, LED, and UNIX-not to mention the mind-expanding LSD or the less dramatic medical innovation marketed as Valium, the "Mother's Little Helper" epitomized by the Rolling Stones' song available for purchase on the recently invented cassette audio tapes. Medical care took a huge step forward when, in April 1969, a mechanical heart was transplanted into a human. And, in the nascent computer field, the first message between two computers on the ARPANET was sent. This event, a half century ago, provided the roots for technological advances that eventually led to the modern-day Internet and World Wide Web

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“…Moreover, taking into account recent theoretical scholarship (Burri, 2012;Lehmuskallio & Gómez-Cruz, 2016;Schade & Wenk, 2011), the framework advocates and empha-sizes the importance of visuality and materiality of any picture practice. In her "Sociology of Images", Burri (2012) points out that the triad of practice, materiality, and visuality has to be conceptually entangled to understand pictures and pictorial practices in their epistemic, material and social multiplicity.…”

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“…Visual communication on social media is on the risewith networked, ubiquitous cameras on devices like smartphones, communicating in and through pictures and especially photos became a common everyday practice (Hand, 2012;Highfield & Leaver, 2016;Lehmuskallio & Gómez-Cruz, 2016). In 2016 for example, 400M photos have been uploaded on Facebook, compared to 250M in 2013, and 760M were shared on Snapchat.…”

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“…Practices of social identity-making have become potentially more reflexive through their visibility and mediation in and on social media (Leaning, 2009;Marwick & boyd, 2011). Therefore, it is fundamental to conceptually and methodologically take into account the visual and material character of practices of identity/sociality-making when researching visual social media (Lehmuskallio & Gómez-Cruz, 2016). Couldry and Van Dijck (2015) deem empirical work "that tracks in everyday life the mechanisms by which today's space of social appearances is being built, its entry and exit points, and rules of operation" as particularly important-yet we have to continuously develop, question and adapt the methods and methodologies we use to carry out our empirical work.…”

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Showing/Sharing: Analysing Visual Communication from a Praxeological Perspective

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2017

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This contribution proposes a methodological framework for empirical research into visual practices on social media. The framework identifies practices, pictures and platforms as relevant dimensions of analysis. It is mainly developed within, and is compatible with qualitative, interpretive approaches which focus on visual communication as part of everyday personal communicative practices. Two screenshots from Instagram and Facebook are introduced as empirical examples to investigate collaborative practices of meaning-making relating to pictures on social media. While social media seems to augment reflexive, processual practices of negotiating identities, visual media, in particular, amps up aesthetic, ambivalent and embodied dimensions within these practices.

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Why material visual practices?

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